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Télécharger le livre :  Forms of the Visible
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Forms of the Visible


Philippe Descola , Catherine Porter


Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist’s imagination.  Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern.  The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions...

Parution : 2025-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Price Setting
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Price Setting


Truman F. Bewley


The prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences? Renowned economist Truman F. Bewley investigates and elucidates this puzzling problem. Its crux, he argues, is that differentiated...

Parution : 2025-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 3
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Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 3


Ciaran Cronin , Jürgen Habermas


In the final volume of his history of philosophy, Jürgen Habermas offers a series of brilliant interpretations of the thinkers who set the agenda for contemporary philosophy.  Beginning with masterful readings of Hume and Kant, he traces the genealogy of their...

Parution : 2025-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 2
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Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 2


Ciaran Cronin , Jürgen Habermas


In this second volume of his groundbreaking new work on the history of philosophy, Jürgen Habermas traces the development of Western thought from the reception of Platonism by early Christian thought, through the revolution in medieval philosophy and theology triggered...

Parution : 2024-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Self in the West and East Asia
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The Self in the West and East Asia


Jin Li


From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of...

Parution : 2024-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions
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Fictions


Markus Gabriel , Wieland Hoban


From ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction...

Parution : 2024-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1
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Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1


Ciaran Cronin , Jürgen Habermas


This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy.   In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the history of Western philosophy as a genealogy of postmetaphysical...

Parution : 2023-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Soviet Passport
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The Soviet Passport


Albert Baiburin , Stephen Dalziel


In this remarkable book, Albert Baiburin provides the first in-depth study of the development and uses of the passport, or state identity card, in the former Soviet Union.  First introduced in 1932, the Soviet passport took on an exceptional range of functions,...

Parution : 2021-11-03
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Collection : New Russian Thought
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Music
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The New Music


Theodor W. Adorno , Wieland Hoban


A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to...

Parution : 2021-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Enrichment
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Enrichment


Luc Boltanski , Arnaud Esquerre , Catherine Porter


This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on...

Parution : 2020-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Society of Singularities
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Society of Singularities


Valentine A. Pakis , Andreas Reckwitz


Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique.  The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern...

Parution : 2020-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Troublemakers
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Troublemakers


Jessica Spengler , Dieter Thomä


The political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in power wanted to keep...

Parution : 2019-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  This is Not Just a Painting
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This is Not Just a Painting


Bernard Lahire


In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were...

Parution : 2019-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Lévi-Strauss
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Lévi-Strauss


Emmanuelle Loyer , Jonathan Magidoff , Ninon Vinsonneau


Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle...

Parution : 2019-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Disability
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Exploring Disability


Colin Barnes , Geof Mercer


The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability in the social...

Parution : 2018-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  On the State
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On the State


Pierre Bourdieu


What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life? In this major work...

Parution : 2018-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Suffering of the Immigrant
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The Suffering of the Immigrant


Pierre Bourdieu , David Macey , Abdelmalek Sayad


This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in...

Parution : 2018-03-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Models of Democracy
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Models of Democracy


David Held


The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a...

Parution : 2016-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Heritage of Our Times
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The Heritage of Our Times


Ernst Bloch


Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the...

Parution : 2015-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Farewell to the World
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Farewell to the World


Marzio Barbagli , Lucinda Byatt


What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills and maims the people around him? Does suicide or ‘voluntary death’ have...

Parution : 2015-10-06
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